Taylor Swift is finally on Spotify!

There are no words to describe the happiness I felt when I found out that Taylor Swift finally gave up her three-year boycott of Spotify and allowed them to share all of her albums for her fans’ throwback pleasure.

Her songs were the soundtrack of my adolescent life, specifically the Speak Now album. I remember feeling giddily in love at one point and being tearfully emotional after as her songs played nonstop on my ipod.

I especially loved how eerily similar her lyrics were to what I was dealing with.

Here are some of the songs that significantly tugged on my heartstrings:

1. Dear John

“Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong
Don’t you think nineteen’s too young
To be played by your dark, twisted games?
When I loved you so, I should’ve known.”

The accuracy of the age when I got my heart broken by the certain guy with the same name is amazing and slightly creepy at the same time.

I literally raped the play button of this song as I cried my heart out. I guess what I loved most about Taylor Swift is how I was able to relate to her with this song.

2. Sparks Fly

I remember playing this song nonstop when I was finally seeing the guy I had a crush with for the longest time. The “kilig” feeling was too much and I couldn’t contain it. I literally felt that sparks flew whenever he smiled. Even seeing his photos got me so crazy. (And no, let’s pretend I am not creepy)

We dated for, I think, a month or two until we both realized that it was not going to work because we both just got out of a relationship.

Zero regrets.

3. Back to December

The break up that I ended up regretting. This song reminded me of my guilt for breaking the guy’s heart because I was confused with what I was feeling. I realized while we were dating that I still was not over with my ex so I decided to end things with him.

And the list goes on…

How did Taylor Swift do that? The songs were tremendously apt for the love-related decisions I did in the past. If she really were serial dating for her music, I commend the bravery and the romantic sacrifice.

MBA, here I come.

Let me post this here to staple it on my 2018 goals.

I can’t believe time flew so fast. In a blink of an eye, I am on my fourth year as a legitimate member of the workforce. Gone are the days (which I can’t believe I sorely miss) of long lectures, homework, and deadlines from our professors, and now we are bombarded with real-life issues that are not graded – but places an impact in either our personal or professional life.

And even if I have been in Rebisco for almost two years, I feel and I know that I still have a lot to learn to make it big. I mean, I took this job in Brand Management without any background in Business. In a way,  I am thankful that I was a member of the Debate team back in high school and college – my exposure with different business-related motions and reading materials helped a lot. But there are just some days wherein I feel that my job requires a deeper knowledge that graduate school may provide. Though I am thankful that my current company offered (and still continues to offer) me a lot of opportunities and guidance to learn and master my craft.

I also want to prove those skeptics who thought that I won’t be able to make it big in the corporate world because I am only a Comm Arts graduate. This mindset goes way back in college when I got teased by my ex boyfriend (who was obviously taking a business-related course) that I should not work and be a housewife instead should we get married because my course would not provide me with a high salary later on unlike his “highly lucrative” course. They were also teasing my college (College of Liberal Arts) as a mere extension of DLS-CSB and should not be considered as a legitimate college in DLSU (in which I am abhorrent of and I sincerely disagree up until this day).

So here it is, I am going to take the leap of faith and gumption and take an MBA degree either in DLSU (my beloved alma mater) or in Ateneo. I am currently at the point of weighing in the pros and cons of each school. 

This will be one of the biggest risks that I am going to take because it will entail a lot of my resources (I will try my best to finance my studies), time, and my attention and focus from my career. This will definitely be one of the hardest “delayed gratification” moments but it will surely be one of the most rewarding and satisfying as well.

I know this move will have a lot of setbacks considering that starting now, I need to save my salary and to study for the entrance exams. Aside from that, I should also prepare myself for the sleepless nights and lost weekends and holidays to case studies, homework, and other school-related responsibilities.

Let this blog post be a promise to myself that I will go back to school in 2018 and make it big before I turn 30. Let this be a promise that I will give it my all and never quit no matter what adversity I may face in the process of achieving this goal. I am quite alarmed that I am only starting to prepare for this big step now, but you know what they say, it is better late than never. It is never too late to dream big.

 

This was me when I graduated with a degree of AB Communication Arts in DLSU-Manila four years ago. I will let this photo serve as an inspiration that I will be able to make it back to school and eventually make it big in my career as a Marketer in an FMCG company.